Combined container and toy stage



' March 20, 1928.

A. O. RIDGWAY ET AL COMBINED CONTAINER AND TOY STAGE Filed May 10, 1926WW ww Fom A LM/ Y0K F N T A. m

A T'I'ORMT Y 35 the pictorial representation of the Patented Mar. 20, 1928.

UNITEDSTATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED O. BIDGWAY LAND ALLAN FRALICK, OFLOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

comma!) CONTAINER am) T OY STAGE.

Application filed May 10,

and a wall is out along indicated lines the empty container will formaminiature theatrical'stage adapted foramusement purposes.

- Briefly, the invention here shown consists in employing a paper boxdesigned to hold dry food products such as cereals, the interior surfaceof one of the side walls being 1 provided with a ictorial representationof a scene from a p ay or motion picture, its oppositely disposed sidewall being cut away along certain indicated linesto form therepresentation off); stage proscenium and the remaining portion. of saidwall containing pictorial representations of the actors designed to beout out for placement'upon the floor of the miniature stage formed fromthe food container.

In an embodiment of the invention as illustrated in the accompanyingdrawing:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of. a paper container in a sealed form.

Fig. '2 is a similar view showing the container formed into a miniaturetoy stage. I Fig. 3 is a partial cross'sectionalview of 'the containershowinga cut-away wall and actors of the has been formed designed to becut therefrom.-

Fig. 4 isa partial front elevation contai'ner'after the same into a toystage.

4 Referring now more specifically to the accompanying drawing 5designates a rec tangular pasteboard container consistingof apluralityofwalls 7, 8, 9, 10,11, and 12, secured together inthe usual manner. Wall?.11 on its exterior surface adjacent three of its edges is providedwith dotted guide lines -13 to indicate the manner in which the cuts aremade to form the "miniature stage out of the container when emptied.-When the 9 wall has been out along the guide lines 13, Y

the long narrow strips 14, 15, 16,. are turned at substantially rihtangles to the walls 7, 8, and 9 'to formt e proscenium of the-toy halfof the 'play advertised but the 'manu 1926. serial no. 107,859.

stage, the vertical strips 14 and 16 being suitably engraved to formstage curtains drawn .apart, while the horizontally dis posed strip 15is also engraved to represent hanging curtains. The larger portion 17 ofwall 11 has printed or engraved upon its interior surface a number offigures 18 representing the actors in the play, said figures adapted tobe cut out and the bases 19 bent along the dotted indicating line 20, toform supports for the figures when mounted on the stage floor 10.

. On the interior surface of wall '12 of the container is printed thepictorial representation of a scene from a motion picture play, or stageproduction, while the mterior surface ofthe wall 10 which is intended torepresent the floor of'the stage may be tinted or printed in a colorsimilar tothe ground shown in the scene. Y

Further, the illustration on the wall may represent an actual scene froma'motion pic-- ture production not yet released, and the figuresdepicted on the wall 11 ma be actual photographic reproductions of theplayers in the represented production .in costume. Also in order toincrease interest the bases 19 of the figures maybe suitablyinscribedwith the name of the player as 'well as the production on'thepaneled space directly. above the players, a short synopsis of theproduction as represented by the pictorial '3 scene andplayers maybeprinted. r

' The containers, as; heretofore noted," are especially adapted for-holdin dry food ,7 products, such as corn flakes, ca es, candies,dried'frui'ts, in factjany commodity that 90 will not injure theinterior surface of the. container.

From the above description it will be apparent that wehave provided atoy-that will furnish considerable amusement to Q5 small children atpractically no cost; Further, by depicting scenes from popular motionpicture plays, its valueas an advertising medium will be obvious, notonly on befacturers' of the commodity contained in the box.

What we claim is: In a toy stage, a rectangular container torcommodities formed from a flexible matemal. 105 having on one of itslnter or wallsa phetographic orengraved reproduction from the mountingupon, the wall forming the stage scene of atheatrical play, itsoppositely dis- -floor. V

.posedvwall adapted to be cut away along in- In witness that we claimthe foregoing we 19 dicated lines on its'outer surface to disclose havehereuntosubscribedour names this 8th 5 the scene and form a miniaturestage, said day of April, 1926.

last named wall being provided with printed 4 ALFRED O. RIDGWAY. figuresadapted -to he out therefrom for ALLAN FRALICK.

